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sporting chance

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sporting chance
n. Informal
A fair chance for success.
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Noun1.sporting chance - a reasonable probability of success
fair chance
probability, chance - a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible; "the probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5"


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Love of the sporting chance is inherent in the Anglo-Saxon race and it was not now Tarzan of the Apes but rather John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, who smilingly welcomed the sporting chance which he must take to discover how far-reaching was Numa's gratitude.
Tarzan the Untamed by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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